2009 Alaska Motorcycle Trip

We have a late dinner in Coldfoot we walk in and are asked restaurant or saloon so we eat in the saloon later to find out it is the farthest northern saloon in north America if you need a bar farther north you have to go to Russia (probably have to ship bikes for that ride). Early the next moring we pack up and head in to Deahorse  as you climb the mountain get more spectacular at every corner and taking pictures becomes more of a chore as the road gets worse. Remember 98 percent of the pictures are taken on the fly and as the gravel gets deeper the pictures get harder to take. I still managed to take 1.75 gig of pictures of the three day event. That will all be available on DVD for those of you making all those great posts(we do in joy reading them at the end of the day). At about 150 miles short of Deadhore we pass a grader then a truck as I go passed the truck I hit a hole so deep I wasn’t sure I would make it out well I did make it out only to lose all power on the bike ( oh f***) not again . This time I new it was probably under the seat. I pull the bag off the back take you seat off see the my powercomander had moved from ware I had remounted it and it was totaled out so I pulled it out (now remember the grader I past is coming) I get it almost done JV is waching the grader. The grader driver fly’s up next to me stops and asks if we need a hand told us there camp was a mile away and would pull me over if we needed. I told him I had it almost fixed and he turned around and graded back the other way (wow I thought he might just bury us there).  From there on in had no more drama but the road did go from  ok to good to great then to sh** in a hurry but we were warned my our master to expect this and the last 60 miles after little sleep and riding all day really took  a toll on you but we arived safe and made our goal. After checking in I when to find gas and to see about getting the hole in my fender covered the gas station was very interesting to big tanks with a hose coming out (sorry no pics. Forgot camera). He called his maintains guy who met me the I followed him to his shop and he fixed me up with an old mud flap. Nice hole plugged and ready to go. By the way JV is a little under the weather after our square dancing and quilting party no really I think it was the bus ride from hell out of 30 on the bus 20 of them seem to be sick and it got him so we’ve slowed a bit but still on the move .

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